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2022 January

Check out the January 2022 edition of Quality, featuring a Vision & Sensors special edition, our main feature on CMMs as the new quality makers and much more!

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CMMs: The New Quality Makers

Geared up and ready to go for digital transformation
April Guenet
January 1, 2022
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The quality norms of the past are being shattered by another evolution of CMM technologies arriving on the scene. The reason? Manufacturing is changing at its core. 


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Features

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Quality 101

Quality in Additive Manufacturing

To facilitate widespread adoption of AM, it will be necessary for material property data to be shared among the design community at large instead by being held by a few large companies.
Shane Collins
January 8, 2022
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In 2010 the ASTM F42 Committee on Additive Manufacturing (AM) created the terminology for an industry which up to then was referred to as rapid prototyping (RP). Parts made using the various rapid prototyping technologies were often used as design concept models, fit check mock-ups and function test articles. 


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QM 0122 Test & Inspection: Calipers Feature
Test & Inspection

The Evolution of Calipers

Most calipers can take the same four types of measurements: inside, outside, depth and step.
Dave Leboeuf
January 1, 2022
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Ask a machinist, “What tool do you use most often?” Most likely the answer will be “my calipers.”


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Columns

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Speaking of Quality
Speaking of Quality | Jim Spichiger

ASQ Member Leaders are NICER

Why do these member leaders dedicate their precious personal time to serve?
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Jim Spichiger
January 15, 2022
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The dedicated and selfless ASQ member leaders are the primary reason why the society is able to fulfill its mission of: empowering individuals and communities of the world to achieve excellence through quality.


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Face of Quality
Column | Jim L. Smith

Face of Quality: KPI Fundamentals

Focusing on the right things is the key to success.
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Jim L. Smith
January 15, 2022
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Peter Drucker, the famed author, educator, and management consultant, said “Efficiency is doing things right, effectiveness is doing the right things.” Whether individually or organizationally, the key to short and long-term success is to focus on the most important issues.


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From the Editor, Darryl Seland
Column | Darryl Seland

From the Editor: Environmental Influences

Accelerating evoution, delivery apps, and handicapping.
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Darryl Seland
January 15, 2022
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You have most likely heard it expressed as the battle between the irresistible force versus the immoveable object. More accurately, it is Newton’s Law, which, in part, states that a body at rest will stay at rest and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by another force.


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Vision & Sensors

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VS 0122 Automation: Augmented reality and image compare skills help guide and operator during work-in-process and final assembly and inspection steps.
Vision & Sensors | Automation

Bringing AI to Visual Inspection

Adding automated decision-support for human operators helps speed visual inspection rates and improve product quality.
Ed Goffin
January 1, 2022
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Manufacturers and brand owners are under tremendous pressure to ensure premium end-to-end product quality, especially as consumers increasingly demand perfection. And a great deal of that product quality pressure still falls on human visual inspection.


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VS 0122 Sensor Trends Figure 1: Increasing sensor sizes are outgrowing the C-mount, leading to the introduction of new, larger mounting options.
Vision & Sensors | Sensor Trends

Growing Sensor Sizes And Uncertainty In Pairing Lenses and Cameras

Lens and camera manufacturers need to collaborate to develop new mounting standards for the new, large sensor formats already on the market, as well as the ones that will be introduced.
Nicholas Sischka Cory Boone
January 1, 2022
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Imaging sensors in the machine vision space have traditionally fit into cameras utilizing only a couple of different camera mounts. However, newer sensors are beginning to grow far too large. Lens and camera manufacturers need to collaborate to develop new mounting standards for the new, large sensor formats.


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Vision & Sensors | Machine Vision Trends

The Rise of Machine Vision

Machine vision is increasingly used in applications outside the factory.
Genevieve Diesing
January 1, 2022
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Machine vision solutions help advance quality by recognizing defects at more efficient rates than humans can, making for more consistent and faster production cycles. 


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